Security Guards and Firearms
By Gregory Kielma
Security Gurad and "Brandishing" a Firearm: Your Thoughts
A security guard brandished a deadly assault weapon at the store entrance making me extremely uncomfortable. How can I get this individual out of a job in under 24 hours?
Thoughts From Jim Clayton
“Brandish” - it is the legal word for show. It could apply to almost anything a person reveals to another by way of showing it to them, but it is largely used to describe the producing of a weapon, and despite some folk’s impression, brandishing can also be the innocent showing of a weapon to another as in, “Hey Gregg, check out my new fancy 2011 pistol,” although the term is far more heavily applied to the potentially illegal showing of a weapon.
First, unless the security guard is a member of the military or an elite counter-terrorism squad, the weapon IS NOT an assault rifle, ya damned dolt! God this is tiring! What you more than likely saw was a semi-auto, magazine fed rifle.
Secondly, unless you enter a very, super secure facility - power station, armored car company, gov’t facility, Area 51 - I think you’re lying through your teeth. I have been to a lot of places and seen a lot of things and I have NEVER seen a security guard - or anyone for that matter, serving in any official capacity - carrying a magazine fed scary black rifle. I’ve seen folks carrying them at gun shows and if I open any one of my four-gun safes, I’ll see a shit-pot load of them sleeping comfortably, but I have never seen one in public with one in any official capacity, police excluded.
As for how you can cause them to lose their livelihood and possibly destroy one’s life, I hope you choke, and I hope no one in the vicinity knows the “Hiemlick” maneuver. I hope it’s a long, drawn-out event. How many times can your life pass before your eyes? To wish to attempt to ruin the life of another American citizen all for the sake of your soy boy sensibilities is as low as one can go.
Will this get deleted because it does not comport to all the social niceties? Yeah, if so, I’ll just change around a word or two and post it back up, so don’t bother. I’m not here to give a Goddamned rat’s ass as to your precious sensibilities. Grow up…maybe when your testicles drop, you’ll be somebody, but I have my doubts!